German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Kapitel
Meaning in English: chapter
Example
Vor dem Schlafen lese ich immer ein Kapitel.
I always read a chapter before going to sleep.
Der, die or das?
Kapitel is neuter: das Kapitel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Kapitel?
Kapitel is number 3,610 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,606die Richtlinieguideline, directive
- 3,607gelassencalm, relaxed, composed
- 3,608Jungsboys, guys (colloquial)
- 3,609geltendapplicable; (geltend machen) to claim
- 3,610das Kapitelchapter
- 3,611erlangento attain, to gain, to obtain
- 3,612körperlichephysical
- 3,613EnglandEngland
- 3,614Geflüchteterefugees
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,610
- The most common German nouns#1,543
- German B1 vocabulary#1,163
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#190
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